Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-11-25
JUMPER Ahp uTHEas.

The Adjutaat General and. the Church
h Wh,ppsr - In Aberdeea'- Record Kci.
a,iveto u Vote ON tho Division Prog
osition.
De Smet, Nov. % 1SS7-To the Press
and Dakotsisn: 4. Ii. Jumper, assistant
sdjatant general of the Grand Army of
the Republic OF Dakota, sent to Ohas. q.
Ely. commander OF Henry post G. A. R.
at De Smet, ani also TO James V. VIII
lott. commander of Baker post at Lake
Preston, last week, printed copies of a
petition and an appeal to rs all to go in
for the admission of Dakota ss a whole.
They were enclosed with g. A. r. off,
cisl papers. Jumper seems TO have sent
them to ali @. Ar posts in Dakota.
His unprofessional communications have
been sent to the department command
or, General Harrison Allen, and further
action has been taken in this county by
the soldiers, the nature OF which L am
not at liberty to mention, but Jumper
will jump QUITO the position of assistant
adlutant general of the Grand Army, de-
partment of Dakota, and before o great
while, it is highly probable.
The democratic clerk OF the district
court of KiEgsbury county has been
favored with q petition from j.. Q. A.
Brandon "a copy of the same Jumper is
trying to circulate through the g. A. R)
The clerk has posted it up in his Office
at De Smet, where ell desiring can sign,
but it is blank and likely to remain
blank till long after December 10Th.
This township filed 200 votes Nov.
Sth but only six were for admission
as q whole. We have many honest DEM
ocrats IN Kingsbury county and but very
few SO cringy as to bow down before the
lash of the administration and surrender
their manhood to the democratic party.
OF course there is one here and there
who does it. The general expression
here with reference TO the impudent
Aberdeen admission as q whole v
ton proposition is one of contempt. The
wonder is that these Aberdeen men are
making such fools of themselves in the
face of the large majority for division.
We all remember that the first cry for @
vote on the question CT division came
from Aberdeen snd those men cried for
it and claimed division men were afraid
of q vote and made 30 much NOISE that
the division men said in the last legis-
lature "if they want to vote SO bad let
them vote," and we voted. The Aber-
deem men always pledged themselves to
abide the result of the vote. One of
their represent ative men in the last ter
~rltorial republican convention at Yank-
con in September 1886 offered as a sub
stitute for ell the division resolutions
presented to the convention by the
committee on resolutions q proposition
foE g vots by the people to find
what the people want and pledged him.
self and his Aberdeen friends to abide
the result. III the people of Aberdeen
have any regard for their good name, as
men who are willing to abide by the
Will of the msjority, they will sit down
hard on this move by o seditious minori-
ty to make their fair CITY the scene OF
efforts to defeat popular rule. We
she'll see. Many of the division men
are red hot diyisionists, there is no
doubt of this but il is safe to say there
is not one of them of any prominence
who would not forever hold his peace and
accept admission al . whole without
q murmur if the people who voted on
Nov. 8th, 1887, had voted for admission
as q whole. Not another peep would
have been heard from any division man.
But when we are in the majority, can
any q n man suppose We will lie down
and be rode over? Not by a minority,
nor by q minority in Dakota aided by o
democratic house of representatives as
Washington. Dakota will enter the
union as two states. Yours,
JOHN a, OWEN.